SidewaysEpisodes Episode guide
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82. Scream Queen
A metal singer reveals how letting out her scream transformed her life.
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81. The Story
How one childhood story helped change the course of many lives.
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80. Broody Men
Matthew Syed challenges assumptions about male desire to have a baby.
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79. The Scientist and the Miracle
Matthew Syed considers whether miracles can be compatible with scientific thinking.
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78. Hide and Seek
What’s the real appeal of secret societies? Mystery, belonging or something else entirely?
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77. Crazy Cat Lady
Why does a childless woman with cats cause such cultural panic? Matthew Syed investigates.
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76. When Time Slows Down
Matthew Syed asks if slow-motion experiences suggest the way we think of time is illusory.
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75. Me, Myself and Mine
What does it mean to own your body - and is that even the right question to ask?
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74. Inventing a Language
Matthew Syed explores our extraordinary capacity to invent new systems of communication.
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73. Reliving History
Matthew Syed explores the power and potential of re-enacting the past.
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72. Limitless Love
Matthew Syed explores the human capacity for limitless love.
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71. Tempting Fate
Matthew Syed questions the consequences of tempting fate.
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70. Digital Ghosts
Matthew Syed explores the ethical boundaries around using AI to create digital ghosts.
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69. Memento Mori
Matthew Syed confronts the passage of time and the inexorability of decay.
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68. Bliss in Suffering
Matthew Syed ponders the possibility of experiencing bliss in the midst of suffering.
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67. Reality Shifting
Matthew Syed explores the nature of reality and the possibility of its hidden layers.
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66. One is a Whole
Matthew Syed explores whether you can find joy and fulfillment in the single life.
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65. Divergent Histories
Two people, with a shared painful history, learn to understand themselves in a new light.
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64. The Masks We Wear
Matthew Syed explores the revealing power of masks.
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63. The Art of Unfinishing
Matthew Syed explores the hidden value in leaving things unfinished.
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62. Lost and Found
A 48-hour fight to survive, lost in a snowstorm. And the data that helps rescuers find us.
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61. Brain Strain
Matthew Syed explores the uncomfortable psychological phenomenon of cognitive dissonance.
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60. For the love of maths
Meet the former child star who considers mathematics to be 'a balm' for her brain.
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59. What's Your Name?
Matthew Syed explores the importance and influence of something we all have - our name.
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58. The Keeper of Lost Memories
One man’s mission to return lost photographs to their original owners.
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57. Grudge Match
A wrestling grudge spills out of the ring and into the real world.
